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Claude now has access to a server-side container environment

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Re: Claude now has access to a server-side container environment

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I don't have access to this yet, so can someone who does tell if: it can take a .PDF with single table with, say, a list of food items and prices. And then in a .docx in the same folder with a table with, say, prices and calories. Can this thing then, in a one shot, produce a .xlsx with the items and calories and save that to the same directory? It really doesn't matter what the lists are of, just keep it very simple…

> Because, strangely enough, that's pretty much my definition of AGI. "It's life jim, but not as we know it" -Bones, probably. I've seen some hokey definitions, but a 3 expression inductance clause is pretty low bar. On that score, your REPL and my compiler are AGI.

Given that someone has to operate this REPL and compiler, the I is that someone. A system that can do that without an operator would be a decent step forwards.

Re: Claude now has access to a server-side container environment

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Except this is a verifiable thing that actually is acknowledged and even tracked by people.

Go on then. Verify and track it. Or at least cite a source that does.

https://x.com/claudeai/status/1965208247302029728

Re: Claude now has access to a server-side container environment

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> It's a one time time investment No, because the software that needs to be installed into them keeps changing (new versions, new packages, etc.) Sysadmin is a job for a reason. And with containers you are a sysadmin for more than one system.

I see, it's rare to interact with someone that hasn't discovered dependency management yet and hasn't made that part of their project. If you did manage to integrate that into your, it would consequently make it a one time time investment, because things are automatically pulled in with the versions specified.

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Re: Claude now has access to a server-side container environment

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Way less clear. Anthropic did it right and wrote about the “so what” instead of focusing on the underlying mechanics.

I find the new headline to be much more clear. Perhaps because I imagined Claude to already be able to "edit and create files" via Claude Code; the server-side container is the key difference.

Yeah, that was my initial confusion: Claude can already create files using both the Artifacts feature and Claude Code, so "Claude can now create and edit files" didn't sound like a new feature to me. Finding out this was actually a full-blown sandboxed container environment with both Python and Node.js was far more interesting.

Re: Claude now has access to a server-side container environment

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I just published an extensive review of the new feature, which is actually Claude Code Interpreter (the official name, bafflingly, is Upgraded file creation and analysis - that's what you turn on in the features page at least). I reverse-engineered it a bit, figured out its container specs, used it to render a PDF join diagram for a SQLite database and then re-ran a much more complex "recreate this chart from this sc…

I've nicked a sentence from your article to use as the title above. Hope that's clearer!

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

> Otherwise please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize.

The word "container" doesn't even appear in the original post from Anthropic, let alone "server-side container environment."

Re: Claude now has access to a server-side container environment

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Yes it is. But totally worth it. Just got it and its quite good and quite fast. Clearly they are subsidizing even at $6. It feels like using sonnet speed wise but with opus quality (i mean pre August Opus/sonnet -> no clue what Anthropic did after that. It's just crap now).

This model is funny to say the least: > /cost ⎿ Total cost: $50.42 Total duration (API): 1h 3m 2.3s Total duration (wall): 3h 36m 56.4s Total code changes: 1205 lines added, 350 lines removed Usage by model: claude-3-5-haiku: 89.5k input, 2.1k output, 15.7k cache read, 0 cache write claude-sonnet: 15.7m input, 84.8k output, 6.5m cache read, 0 cache write > what model are you ? ● I'm Claude Sonnet (the model shown in…

That’s hilarious. How’s this model in practice?

Re: Claude now has access to a server-side container environment

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My experience is similar. At first Claude was super smart and get even very complicated things right. Now even super simple tasks are almost impossible to finish right, even if I really chop things into small steps. Also it's much slower even on Pro account than a few weeks ago.

It's still pretty good on my side. I'm just paying for the pro version.
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